On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Erik Moeller
<erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Could open source MT be such a strategic
investment? I don't know, but
I'd like to at least raise the question. I think the alternative will
be, for the foreseeable future, to accept that this piece of
technology will be proprietary, and to rely on goodwill for any
integration that concerns Wikimedia. Not the worst outcome, but also
not the best one.
Are there open source MT efforts that are close enough to merit
scrutiny?
http://www.statmt.org/moses/ is live an kicking. Someone with a
background in computer linguistics should have a close look at them.
I would like to mention however that there are a couple of cases in
...
In any case, I would love to see WMF engage in the
topic of machine translation.
thanks a lot erik and mathias for this constructive input! i'd love to
see that too, and, from a volunteer standpoint, not only financing
further development seems adicting, but also training (eg
http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=FactoredTraining.PrepareTraining)
seems to be something bite-sized which might fit the wiki-model and
the wikimedia volunteer community structure quite well.
rupert.